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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem is Germany had too many small special weapon programs.

  1. Wire Guided anti-ship missle
  2. Jet fighter/bomber
  3. Rocket fighter
  4. ICBMs and cruise missles
  5. Mini land ship
  6. Not so mini land ship
  7. Vtol aircraft
  8. Many many duplicate projects of the above.
  9. Big submarine
  10. Big battleship

But their never put enough resources on a few of them to make them viable.

The US had 3 really big projects.

  1. Portable temporary sun
  2. Superbomber B29
  3. Proximity fuses (arguably the most important weapon of WW2)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

"What if gun, but BIG?"

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

They had a portable temporary sun project too. Add it to the list...

They never seriously invested on it, but then, that's to be expected given the size of that list.